The newly detected Zhúlóng galaxy shares many similar features with the Milky Way galaxy and has been named after a mythical ...

First the Milky Way has to rise high enough in the sky to be dramatic ... It was exciting, being out there in the dead silence of the desert night, seeing our images getting better and better ...

Matteo Strassera wins the top place in this round with an image of the Milky Way captured over sand dune curves in the Rub’ al Khali desert ... unusually high 1.4x maximum magnification and ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole. The cosmic twisters could play an important role in distributing organic molecules ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. The unexpected discovery came via observations of the ...